Folk Practices in North Mexico : : Birth Customs, Folk Medicine, and Spiritualism in the Laguna Zone / / Isabel Kelly.
The Mexican folkways described in this monograph, of scientific interest to anthropologists, will fascinate laypeople as well. Isabel Kelly collected these notes in the 1950s, as a diversion when official field work was not feasible, in the vicinity of Torreón and particularly in the nearby village...
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